Comments by "Archangel17" (@MDP1702) on ""NovoRossiya": Putin's Plan to Take Back Ukraine - TLDR News" video.

  1.  Русс град  Ancient Russian lands? Russia held it for around 130-250 years (depending on the region) before the USSR was formed. And if you wish to refer to the Kievan Rus, remember that it was Kiev (ie. 'ukriane') that ruled the Russian principalities in so far that there was a unified country to speak off (more a confederation of citystates). After that the PLC took over Kiev. There are plenty of countries that can claim Ukraine by pointing to historical occupation/control. This goes for much of the old world.
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  2.  Русс град  Just because it wasn't called Ukraine in the past, doesn't mean the idea/entity didn't exist under a different nation. Russia came from some of the principalities of the Kievan Rus, not all of them. The southern principalities (who make up current day Ukraine more or less) weren't part of Russia when it was formed. Kievan Rus to Russia is like the Frankish carolingian empire to France. Or in other words, both the Ukrainian and Russian territories were part of the Kievan Rus in the past, but the southern principalities (ie. Ukraine) weren't historically part of the Russian kingdom/empire up untill somewhere in the late 17th century. Russia claiming Ukraine based on Kievan Rus heritage is like France claiming Germany based on the Carolingian/Frankish empire. And if you would like the Kievan Rus claims to be used, it would be Ukraine that would Claim the former Kievan Rus principalities (ie. modern day western Russia), not the other way around, since Kiev was the leading principality in the Kievan Rus untill the mongol invasion and subjugation, after which it was soon annexed by Lithuania. Upper Ukraine was almost as long part of Lithuania/PLC as it was part of Russia. And their is no 'Russian' religion. Orthodoxy existed long before Russia, in fact it is one of the older forms of Christianity and was adopted by the Kievan Rus leadership (and forced on the people) to become friends with the Byzantines (which btw always kept calling themselves romans, since you are so hung up on names), the original orthodox Christians. There was not really such thing as Russian land or Russian people before the 16th century (You could argue that the slavic are Russian, but these also lived/live in the Balkans and Poland/Lithuanian regions, which were never part of a 'Russian' entity up untill recent history (or just never regarding the Blakans) and Southern Ukraine definitely wasn't part of 'Russian land', it was constantly inhabitated by tribes from the east up untill the Ottomans took control of that region. The Kievan Rus leadership were mostly Scandinavian vikings which took control of the Kievan Rus lands.
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